We are delighted to announce the upcoming OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, scheduled for January 25-26th, 2016, in Jerusalem!

OurCrowd will be hosting over 2000 investors from 50 different countries, 100+ entrepreneurs and companies, 100 corporate and venture funds, various managers and leaders to celebrate Israel’s surging tech ecosystem and the transformation of innovation finance by equity crowdfunding.

The OurCrowd Global Investor Summit will feature a series of in-depth forums and seminars about tech trends, company building, and investing.

It’s been a busy few months at OurCrowd! Throughout January, February, and March of 2015, OurCrowd hosted numerous events worldwide, including our annual Passover breakfast event in the beginning of April (we had to sneak it in here!), and we’re taking a moment to review where we’ve been and who we invested in, and learn where we’ll be next quarter.

We’re so proud of what the OurCrowd community has accomplished over the past three months — from events hosted to the companies funded — and are looking forward to continuing this journey together in the months to come.

Without further ado, here is a glimpse into all the excitement happening at OurCrowd:

Where We’ve Been

Over the past three months, OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members have traveled the world, hosting various events with the CEOs of our latest startups and guest speakers.

We’ve held a total of 48 events, in 22 cities (from 6 different countries), across 5 continents!

January 19th – OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved and Scott Dubin, OurCrowd Director of Investor Relations, hosted a series of events in Toronto, Canada. The day started out with a business breakfast presented by Bay St. and Business Cabinets titled ”Update from the Startup Nation,” followed by an exclusive lunch presented by Canada Israel Chamber on “How Equity Crowdfunding is Changing the World of Innovation Finance,” and ending with a special evening by the UJA with Jon Medved presenting “The Startup Culture of Israel.”

February 27th-March 3rd – During the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington D.C. the OurCrowd team held a series of exclusive receptions, panel sessions, private meetings, and speaking engagements providing investors with various opportunities to meet with OurCrowd’s CEO Jon Medved, Partners Danna Mann & Audrey Jacobs, other members of the OurCrowd team, and the CEOs of our portfolio companies.

March 25th-28th – The OurCrowd Australia team ran a booth at the 2015 YPO Global EDGE in Melbourne, Australia. Each year, more than 3,000 of the world’s top leaders gather at the YPO conferences to address key issues in business, politics, philanthropy, and humanities. The team down under was joined by Partner Danna Mann and CEO Jon Medved, who also took to the stage as a participant on a panel of disruptors hosted by CNBC Asia anchor Martin Soong.

Annual Passover events – OurCrowd hosted an exclusive Passover breakfast for accredited investors at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem, which brought together hundreds of investors from 10 countries worldwide. The breakfast featured Dr. Tal Becker, the Principal Deputy Legal Advisor at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who discussed Israel’s most pressing diplomatic, legal, and policy challenges. The event offered good food, great drinks, wonderful company, and stellar presentations, including some of our latest investment opportunities.

Throughout the first quarter of 2015 we have a number of events scheduled around the world and an exciting slate of new deals on the OurCrowd platform. Take a look at our new events calendar. We hope to see you at one of our upcoming events!

Who We Funded

Over the last two years, OurCrowd, along with our community of 7,000 investors, has invested more than $110 million in 66 portfolio companies. This unprecedented access to early stage investments has made startups an investable asset, now included in individual investor portfolios — just like stocks and bonds.

For a look at the current investment opportunities on OurCrowd, click here.

Next Steps

We always look forward to seeing our investors, longtimers and newcomers, at our events and conferences. If you have any questions or would like to discuss other events and activities on the OurCrowd platform, please contact Investor.Services@OurCrowd.com.

OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members will be hosting events in the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and Israel in the upcoming weeks, with the CEOs of our new startups and guest speakers. Scroll down to learn more and RSVP. We hope to see you at one of our events.

Be sure to RSVP on the links below – either scroll through the events calendar below or the text list. Space is limited!

March 27th – New York, NY

What: OurCrowd will join Pennovation Israel for the Israeli Startups Trek in NYC. This event is hosted by Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

Featuring: Andrew Scharf, VP OurCrowd

When: 4:00PM-5:00PM

For more information, please email Allison@OurCrowd.com

March 31st- San Diego, CA

What: Join OurCrowd’s VP of Americas, Audrey Jacobs, for lunch and meet the CEO from MyAgentFinder, one of OurCrowd’s currently funding companies. This event is co-hosted by KPMG

What: Join OurCrowd as we are honored at the OnFinance Showcase hosted by AlwaysOn. OurCrowd has made the 2015 OnFinance Top 100 for being one of the most promising private companies in business, personal finance, and digital currencies.

What: Audrey Jacobs, VP OurCrowd Americas, is speaking for the Entrepreneurship Program of the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah: “How Crowdfunding is Changing the Way Startups are Funded”

Featuring: Audrey Jacobs, VP OurCrowd Americas

For more information, please email Nirit.revzin@ourcrowd.com

April 23rd– Salt Lake City, UT

What: Join OurCrowd for a community reception: “Israel: the world leader in innovation that’s improving the world.” This event is hosted by The United Jewish Federation of Utah

Check out where we’ve been this past month…

February 27th-March 3rd – Washington D.C.

What: Join us for exclusive receptions, speaking engagements, and private meetings with members of the OurCrowd team in Washington D.C.

Featuring: Jon Medved, Founder & CEO of OurCrowd; Danna Mann, Partner and Head of Investor Relations of OurCrowd; Audrey Jacobs, VP of Americas of OurCrowd, and other members of the OurCrowd team and the CEOs of our portfolio companies.

For more information and to join our events interest list, please click here.

To meet with senior members of the OurCrowd team in Washington D.C. during the week of February 27th through March 3rd, 2015, please email Allison@ourcrowd.com.

Featuring: Jon Medved, Founder & CEO of OurCrowd; Danna Mann, Partner and Head of Investor Relations of OurCrowd; Audrey Jacobs, VP of Americas of OurCrowd, and other members of the OurCrowd team and CEOs of our portfolio companies.

What: Join OurCrowd at the Silicon Valley: Rise of Alternative Finance Conference hosted by Crowdfund Beat. OurCrowd will be hosting the evening reception for VIP registrants. Use limited code ourcrowd or ourcrowdvip for a 50% discount.

Featuring: Hear Danna Hochstein Mann, OurCrowd Partner, who will speak about “How Crowdfunding is Changing the World of Innovation Finance,” and participate in a panel discussing “From disruption to sustainable growth.” Use OurCrowd’s discounted code: “GROWTH”.

It’s been a busy few months at OurCrowd! Throughout October, November and December of 2014, OurCrowd hosted numerous events worldwide, including our first Global Investor Summit, and we’re taking a moment to review where we’ve been and who we invested in, and learn where we’ll be next quarter.

We’re so proud of what the OurCrowd community has accomplished over the past three months — from events hosted to the companies funded — and are looking forward to continuing this journey together in the months to come.

Without further ado, here is a glimpse into all the excitement happening at OurCrowd:

Where We’ve Been

Over the past three months, OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members have traveled the world, hosting various events with the CEOs of our latest startups and guest speakers.

We’ve held a total of 23 events, in 15 different cities, across 4 continents!

October 12th – Kicking off the quarter, OurCrowd held a special event for its fellow investors and scotch and wine connoisseurs in Jerusalem’s first indoor sukkah at the Waldorf Astoria, along with CEOs of our portfolio companies.

October 28th – OurCrowd investors joined Eduardo Shoval, Venture Partner at OurCrowd, and Moises Benchimol, Investor Relations Manager for Latin America, in Mexico City. Hosted and organised by the Mexico-Israel Chamber of Commerce, attendees enjoyed breakfast and discussion with the OurCrowd team, covering the Startup Nation and the new wave of Israeli innovation.

November 19th – Investors joined the Israel team and the founders of our newest portfolio companies at the LeumiTech offices in Tel Aviv for a private investor meeting titled, “Enhancing Voice Communication & Bio-Metric Security.”

December 9th-10th– OurCrowd held its first annual Global Investor Summit at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, which brought together almost 1,000 participants from 27 countries worldwide. The first day of the summit concluded with a gala cocktail party at Jerusalem’s First Train Station, sponsored by the Jerusalem Development Authority and JNext. On the second day, summit participants fanned out across Israel in five different tours to view Israel’s tech sector up close, meeting with leading public companies such as Google, Mobileye, Check Point and Evogene, as well as OurCrowd portfolio companies.

OurCrowd’s Global Investor Summit – December 9-10th, 2014

Upcoming events

Throughout the first quarter of 2015 we have a number of events scheduled around the world and an exciting slate of new deals on the OurCrowd platform. Take a look at the January-February events schedule. We hope to see you at one of our upcoming events!

Who We Funded

Over the last two years, OurCrowd, along with our community of 7,000 investors, has invested more than $100 million in 56 portfolio companies. This unprecedented access to early stage investments has made startups an investable asset, now included in individual investor portfolios — just like stocks and bonds.

Next Steps

We always look forward to seeing our investors, longtimers and newcomers, at our events and conferences. If you have any questions or would like to discuss other events and activities on the OurCrowd platform, please contact Investor.Services@OurCrowd.com.

OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members will be hosting events in the US and Israel in the upcoming weeks, with the CEOs of our new startups and guest speakers. Scroll down to learn more and RSVP, we hope to see you at one of our events.

What: Join us for exclusive receptions, speaking engagements, and private meetings with members of the OurCrowd team in Washington, D.C.

Featuring: Jon Medved, Founder & CEO of OurCrowd; Danna Mann, Partner and Head of Investor Relations of OurCrowd; Audrey Jacobs, VP of Americas of OurCrowd, and other members of the OurCrowd team and CEOs of our portfolio companies

When: Week of February 27 through March 3

For more information and to join our interest list for our events in DC, please click here.

What: Join us for dinner and a startup presentation: “Beyond the Backyard: Using Crowdfunding to Invest in Global Startups” followed by a discussion with a global crowdfunding expert, ​ and meet an Israeli medical technology CEO raising capital on OurCrowd. This event is co-hosted by the Houston Angel Network and the Israel Economic Mission to the U.S. Southern Region.

OurCrowd’s CEO Jon Medved will be making several appearances across the US and Canada on OurCrowd’s inaugural Press Tour during the month of January. If you would like to get in touch with OurCrowd as a member of the press, please contact: Leah@ourcrowd.com; +1.877.848.0964 ext. 2

In just under two weeks, OurCrowd will host the Global Investor Summit, a gathering of top tech innovators, startups, angel and VC investors, and other industry leaders to talk about what’s on the horizon for trends in the hottest tech sectors and startup investing.

The conference will open on December 9th with welcoming words by OurCrowd Founder and CEO Jon Medved and Mayor of Jerusalem and former venture capitalist Nir Barkat. Throughout the day attendees will hear from a selection of tech leaders, entrepreneurs, VCs and more across panels, keynotes and more intimate meetings.

The list of newly-announced speakers includes:

Nir Barkat

Mayor of Jerusalem

Nir Barkat is an Israeli businessman and politician, and 9th mayor of Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel. Mayor Barkat has inspired thousands of Jerusalemites with his vision to turn Israel’s capital city into one rich in culture, youth, education, lasting economic development, and tourism, as well as his message of respect and pluralism for all residents of Jerusalem.

Larry Jasinsky

CEO of ReWalk Robotics

Larry Jasinski has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the ReWalk board since February 2012. From 2005 until 2012, Mr. Jasinski served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Soteira, Inc., a company engaged in development and commercialization of products used to treat individuals with vertebral compression fractures, which was acquired by Globus Medical in 2012.

Dov Moran

Entrepreneur and Active Investor

Dov Moran is Founder, CEO and Chairman of Modu. Before that, Mr. Moran was the founder, Chairman and CEO of M-systems, which invented the USB Flash Drive and other innovative flash data storage devices. The company was acquired by SanDisk Corp for $1.6B at the end of 2006. Mr. Moran is also the Chairman of Tower Semiconductor and Biomas, a bio-tech company.

Rona Segev-Gal

General Partner at Pitango

Rona Segev-Gal is a General Partner at Pitango Venture Capital. Ms. Segev-Gal joined Pitango Venture Capital in April 2005 to head the Enterprise Software sector. Her investment focus is enterprise software startups. She served as a General Partner at Evergreen Partners, which she joined in October 2000 and focused on investments in software companies, with emphasis on enterprise software.

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Dr. Daniel Gold

Inventor of the Iron Dome

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Dr. Daniel Gold is the CEO and Founder of Gold R&D Technology and Innovation Ltd., and Head of the Israel National Committee for Commercial/Civilian Cyber R&D. Gold was awarded Israel Defense Prize in 2012 for his role in inventing and managing the “Iron Dome” missiles/rockets defense system. Under Gold’s leadership, the IDF R&D unit was also awarded the Israel Defense Prize seven times.

Gonzalo Martinez de Azagra

Director, Samsung Ventures Israel

Gonzalo Martinez de Azagra, investor and tech strategist leading Samsung Ventures’ Israel venture and fund of fund investments. In the past, Gonzalo worked in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ advisory group in Spain and the former Atomic Energy Authority (AEA Technology) in the United Kingdom.

Leonard Rosen

CEO at Barclays Capital Israel

Leonard G. Rosen is Chief Executive Officer of Barclays Israel and a Managing Director of Barclays, positions he has held since October 2008. From 1994 to 2008, Mr. Rosen was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, serving in various positions, including as Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers Israel and as a Managing Director within Lehman Brothers’ global technology group.

Now, take startup investing to the next level at OurCrowd’s Global Investor Summit, December 9-10 in Jerusalem, Israel. At the event, accredited investors from around the world will:

learn 2015 projections from top VCs and investment analysts

speak with the incredible entrepreneurs dominating the Israeli startup scene

network with other OurCrowd investors from the international community

tour the hottest Israeli tech and startup destinations

The Global Investor Summit is the first of its kind, bringing together angel and VC investors from around the world to meet our team and each other, as well as more than 40 startups from OurCrowd’s portfolio – across sectors and stages.

Highlights include:

Panels with industry experts and keynote speakers covering technology trends, startup investing and what’s in store for 2015 and beyond

Presentations by the cutting edge technologies that make up the OurCrowd portfolio, including ReWalk Robotics, OurCrowd’s first IPO on NASDAQ

Offsite tours to see firsthand the companies that power the Sartup Nation

The greater OurCrowd community is invited to celebrate at an evening cocktail party in Jerusalem (registration required)

OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members will be hosting events in the US and Israel in the upcoming weeks, with the CEOs of our new startups and guest speakers. Scroll down to learn more and RSVP, we hope to see you at one of our events.

Featuring: David S. Rose, an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and Founder of New York Angels. David is the author of Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups. Dinner attendees will hear remarks by David and receive a holiday gift of a signed copy of his book.

What: Join OurCrowd in London for a private roundtable breakfast with Jon Medved organized by UK Israel Business. Jon will be presenting “Update from the Start-Up Nation: Current Trends in Israeli Tech.”

What: Join OurCrowd in London for a Reception and networking, presentation, followed by a Q&A. Hear from Jon Medved, OurCrowd Founder & CEO, about “How Equity Crowdfunding is Changing the World of Innovation Finance”. The event is organized by the Zionist Federation and hosted by BDO.